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README for Infectious Diseases

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There are three data sets in the Infectious Diseases category (malaria
is compiled separately from the others):

   1. extent of infectious diseases (*disarea.dta*);
   2. areas with infectious diseases weighted by 1994 population
      (*dispop.dta*); and
   3. malaria: land area, and land area weighted by 1994 population
      (*malaria.dta*).

The data sets are provided in several formats:
Data set description (Word doc)
Stata data file
Stata do file
ASCII file (comma delimited)

These data sets were created as part of The Center for International
Development?s ongoing research into the role of geography in economic
development (see www.cid.harvard.edu/economic.htm
<http://www.cid.harvard.edu/economic.htm>). They were created between
1998 and 1999. Please reference CID if you use this data in a publication.

